How to format your references using the Papillomavirus Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Papillomavirus Research. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

H. Elderfield, Climate change. Carbonate mysteries, Science 296 (2002) 1618–1621.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D. Herbst, A. Mas, Peer effects on worker output in the laboratory generalize to the field, Science 350 (2015) 545–549.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

J.E. Gestwicki, G.R. Crabtree, I.A. Graef, Harnessing chaperones to generate small-molecule inhibitors of amyloid beta aggregation, Science 306 (2004) 865–869.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J. Xie, H. Wu, C. Dai, Q. Pan, Z. Ding, D. Hu, B. Ji, Y. Luo, X. Hu, Beyond Warburg effect--dual metabolic nature of cancer cells, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4927.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

S. Sokhanvar, J. Dargahi, S. Najarian, S. Arbatani, Tactile Sensing and Displays, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

D. Havelock, S. Kuwano, M. Vorländer, eds., Handbook of Signal Processing in Acoustics, Springer, New York, NY, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L. Dolamic, J. Savoy, Stemming Approaches for East European Languages, in: C. Peters, V. Jijkoun, T. Mandl, H. Müller, D.W. Oard, A. Peñas, V. Petras, D. Santos (Eds.), Advances in Multilingual and Multimodal Information Retrieval: 8th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2007, Budapest, Hungary, September 19-21, 2007, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 37–44.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Papillomavirus Research.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Study Of World’s Oldest People Fails To Find Any “Genetic Secrets” To Living Longer, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/study-worlds-oldest-people-fails-find-any-genetic-secrets-living-longer/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office, ADP Procurement: Better Capacity Planning Needed at Agriculture’s National Finance Center, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K.M. Ressler, The path to leadership for Native American women at North Dakota tribal colleges, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2008.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

M. Pilon, Richards-Ross Breaks American Drought In the Women’s 400, New York Times (2012) D1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Papillomavirus Research
Abbreviation	Papillomavirus Res.
ISSN (print)	2405-8521
Scope